Even Donald Trump’s harshest critics would find it hard to deny he carries his own unique set of political skills.
The fact he was written off after the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and able to secure a second term with a populist campaign that made a billionaire sound more in touch with the needs of working people than Joe Biden, is evidence alone.
What Trump doesn’t do well is variety or variation. Confronted with evidence that his policy of tariffs is hurting the people he claims to be helping, he simply doubles down on their purported success.
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Presented with information the lining to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged not by “vandals” but by the contractors he hired, he chooses to ignore it.
